Homophobia in Mississippi, 1958, by Jonathan Ned Katz

In 2015, OutHistory published this original document discovery, a homophobic 1958 report by the President of Mississippi Southern College (now the University of Southern Mississippi) in Hattiesburg. The exhibit includes the memoir of Anne Nunnally, a…

Homophile Movement Oral Histories, 1950-1969, by John D'Emilio

A collection of twenty-three LGBTQ oral histories completed by John D'Emilio in the 1970s.

Herbert Spiers, 1945-2011, by Jonathan Ned Katz

A biography and obituary of an AIDS activist.

Great Moments in Fort Lauderdale LGBT History: The First Gay Cruise, 1974, by Fred Fejes

An introduction to a 300-person gay cruise, organized by the Islanders Club of New York, that set sail from Fort Lauderdale in 1974. Published originally by OutHistory in 2020.

Fraternities, Sex Between Men, The Closet, 1993, by Thomas Glave

Thomas Glave was a student at Bowdoin College when he published what turned out to be an inflamatory essay in the Bowdoin student newspaper, The Bowdoin Orient, on February 19, 1993 (p. 15). OutHistory reprinted that essay with Glave's…

Founding Google's Gayglers in 2004, by Bennet Marks

An account of the founding of Google's LGBT employee group in 2004 and an article about the founder and his partner. Published originally on OutHistory in 2019.

Eve Adams Archive, by Jonathan Ned Katz

This feature presents the following six sections: Eve Adams Chronology; Eve Adams Corrections; Eve Adams Documents; Eve Adams Pictures; Eve Adams Research Suggestions; Eve Adams Teaching Topics and Materials

Envisioning the World We Make, 2016-2021, by Jonathan Ned Katz

See also: The Standard Model of the Social-Historical Universe, by Jonathan Ned Katz

“We Were The Movement": Lesbian Activism in the Boston Reproductive Rights Movement, by Sara Slager

A 2023 essay by Sara Slager, a Boston-based researcher who graduated in May 2022 from Simmons University with a BA in Women's and Gender Studies and a double minor in History and Education. In May 2023, she will graduate with a Masters of Arts…

Ingredients for Revolution: A History of American Feminist Restaurants, Cafes, and Coffeehouses

Cambridge Women's Center

Front-view of the Cambridge Women's Center before the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.

Left on Pearl

Movie poster for the 2016 film Left on Pearl, which focuses on the 1970s Bread and Roses building takeover. This event led to the creation of the Cambridge Women's Center.

Our Bodies, Ourselves

The original cover of the Boston Women's Health Book Collective's Our Bodies, Ourselves.

Doctors Treat LGBTQ+ People: A Troubled History, 1866-2020, by Jonathan Ned Katz

An excerpt of Jonathan Ned Katz, Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. (T.Y. Crowell, 1976), 129-34, along with a bibliography and sample document.

Discovering a Trove of Magnus Hirschfeld Documents, 2009-2012, by Donald W. McLeod

An exhibit on the discovery of documents related to the life and times of German Jewish sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935). Published originally on OutHistory in 2020.

COVID Quarantine Meditation, May 13, 2020, by Anne Balay

Professor, trucker, and union organizer Anne Balay reflects on Matt Brim’s Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University (2020) in an original OutHistory feature.

Comrades and Lovers, A Documentary Play, by Jonathan Ned Katz

A theater piece, first performed in 1989-1992 and authored by OutHistory's founder, about love between men in the life of Walt Whitman, adapted from the words of Whitman, John Addington Symonds, and others, condensed from their letters, diaries,…

Carroll Smith-Rosenberg and "The Female World of Love and Ritual," A 2021 Interview by Matthew Hauptman

An interview with the author of a groundbreaking 1975 essay on lesbian history.

Blue-Collar Queers: An Introduction to Steel Closets, 2014, by Anne Balay

Anne Balay tells OutHistory about her book Steel Closets: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Steelworkers, which is based on interviews with LGBT steelworkers in northwestern Indiana about their experiences of class, gender, and sexual identity…

Atlanta Since Stonewall, 1969-2009, by Wesley Chenault

Atlanta Since Stonewall, 1969-2009: A Local History brings to life a segment of the city’s LGBTQ past, highlighting nationally recognized and little-known personalities, places, and events. Through photographs, printed materials, ephemera, and links…